No fewer than 29 fishermen have lost their lives to suspected Boko Haram terrorists while fishing in the Lake Chad region in Borno State.
By Emma Ogbuehi
No fewer than 29 fishermen have lost their lives to suspected Boko Haram terrorists while fishing in the Lake Chad region in Borno State.
According to the Punch, the incident reportedly happened at Mukdolo village located in Gamboru-Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State, a Nigeria-Cameroon border town along the fringes of Lake Chad.
Sources in the local government area confirmed that the fishermen were killed while on fishing and wood-cutting activities on Wednesday evening by terrorists riding on motorcycles.
It was reported that the terrorists started shooting sporadically killing 29 while seven others barely escaped with degrees of injuries.
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“The terrorists asked the victims to lie down. Thereafter, they used their fishing net and wrapped the victims before they started torturing them. After they became unconscious, they opened fire on them and killed all 29 of them”
Earlier in the year, reports had it that over 300 Boko Haram fighters and their families were killed by their diehard commanders for attempting to surrender in Borno State.
Military sources said that about 90,000 of the fighters had repented and surrendered across the state in the last 17 months.
The Special Adviser to the Borno State Government on Security Affairs, Brig. Gen. Ishaq Abdullahi, who made the disclosure in Maiduguri, added that the diehard Boko Haram commanders resorted to killing any terrorist attempting to flee the Sambisa forest to surrender in order to frustrate the ongoing peace dialogue between government and the terror group.
In 2020, about 66 people, mostly rice farmers and fishermen were killed by suspected members of Boko Haram sect in Koshobe village near Zabarmari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, reliable sources have said.
The attack also left scores of people injured from gunshot wounds. The incident happened on a day Borno was conducting its first local government election after more than a decade.
